Ordering the heavens : Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance / by Bruce S. Eastwood.

Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, this book shows how Roman sources were used in the age of Charlemagne to reintroduce and expand a qualitative picture of articulated geometrical order in the heavens.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Eastwood, Bruce
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2007.
Series:History of science and medicine library ; v. 4.
History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 8.
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